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David C. Cannatella

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David C. Cannatella's Degrees

PhD Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, David C. Cannatella is an American herpetologist, systematist, zoologist, and professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Cannatella earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1976. He then studied systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas, receiving his Ph.D. under the supervision of Linda Trueb in 1985. His dissertation was on the phylogeny of primitive frogs .

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THE MAJOR CLADES OF FROGS (1993) (415)
A mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of African clawed frogs: phylogeography and implications for polyploid evolution. (2004) (281)
Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages (2009) (272)
Multiple, recurring origins of aposematism and diet specialization in poison frogs (2003) (248)
Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution. (1997) (248)
Novel relationships among hyloid frogs inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. (2004) (247)
Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (2017) (224)
Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog (2007) (223)
Phylogenetics of fanged frogs: testing biogeographical hypotheses at the interface of the asian and Australian faunal zones. (2003) (221)
Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family ranidae. (2006) (208)
A mechanism for diversity in warning signals: conspicuousness versus toxicity in poison frogs. (2006) (176)
Patterns of Endemism and Species Richness in Malagasy Cophyline Frogs Support a Key Role of Mountainous Areas for Speciation (2008) (158)
Efficient sequencing of Anuran mtDNAs and a mitogenomic exploration of the phylogeny and evolution of frogs. (2013) (156)
Xenopus Laevis as a Model Organism (1993) (144)
Evolution of Dietary Specialization and Chemical Defense in Poison Frogs (Dendrobatidae): A Comparative Analysis (2004) (134)
Evolution of pipoid frogs intergeneric relationships of the aquatic frog family pipidae anura (1988) (132)
Phenotypic integration emerges from aposematism and scale in poison frogs (2011) (131)
Phylogeny of frogs of the Physalaemus pustulosus species group, with an examination of data incongruence. (1998) (130)
Spatiotemporal Diversification of the True Frogs (Genus Rana): A Historical Framework for a Widely Studied Group of Model Organisms. (2016) (115)
GEOLOGICAL AND CLIMATIC FORCES DRIVING SPECIATION IN THE CONTINENTALLY DISTRIBUTED TRILLING CHORUS FROGS (PSEUDACRIS) (2007) (112)
THE HISTORY OF A NEARCTIC COLONIZATION: MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NEARCTIC TOADS (BUFO) (2004) (111)
Polyploids with Different Origins and Ancestors Form a Single Sexual Polyploid Species (2006) (101)
Phylogeny-based delimitation of species boundaries and contact zones in the trilling chorus frogs (Pseudacris). (2007) (97)
Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomy of the Tropidurus Group of Lizards ( Iguania : Tropiduridae ) (93)
Phylogenetic relationships of the North American chorus frogs (Pseudacris: Hylidae). (2004) (92)
Evolution of RAG-1 in polyploid clawed frogs. (2005) (87)
Taxonomic Freedom and the Role of Official Lists of Species Names (2009) (87)
MONKEYS AND TOADS DEFINE AREAS OF ENDEMISM ON SULAWESI (2003) (80)
Tests of biogeographic hypotheses for diversification in the Amazonian forest frog, Physalaemus petersi. (2007) (78)
A NEW TAXON OF BUFONIDAE FROM PERU, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES AND A REVIEW OF THE PHYLOGENETIC STATUS OF SUPRASPECIFIC BUFONID TAXA (1995) (77)
AN ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF FROGS IN A SOUTHEAST ASIAN ISLAND ARCHIPELAGO (2013) (75)
AMPHIBIAN RELATIONSHIPS: PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULES (1993) (73)
Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders: Implications for aquifer management and biodiversity conservation (2019) (65)
Targeted Enrichment: Maximizing Orthologous Gene Comparisons across Deep Evolutionary Time (2013) (64)
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Anoles: Is a New Taxonomy Warranted? (1989) (64)
Ancient phylogeographic divergence in southeastern Australia among populations of the widespread common froglet, Crinia signifera. (2008) (62)
Leptodactylid Frogs of the Physalaemus pustulosus Group (1984) (58)
Monkeys and toads define areas of endemism on Sulawesi. (2003) (57)
Phylogeny of the túngara frog genus Engystomops (= Physalaemus pustulosus species group; Anura: Leptodactylidae). (2006) (56)
Genetic divergence is more tightly related to call variation than landscape features in the Amazonian frogs Physalaemus petersi and P. freibergi (2009) (55)
Systematics, morphology, and phylogeny of genus Pipa (Anura: Pipidae). (1986) (54)
ANCIENT TEPUI SUMMITS HARBOR YOUNG RATHER THAN OLD LINEAGES OF ENDEMIC FROGS (2012) (54)
An Upper Eocene Frog from the Dominican Republic and Its Implication for Caribbean Biogeography (1987) (54)
Three new species of leaflitter frogs from the upper Amazon forests: cryptic diversity within Pristimantis "ockendeni" (Anura: Strabomantidae) in Ecuador (2008) (53)
Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance (2017) (51)
Evolution of Pipoid Frogs: Morphology and Phylogenetic Relationships of Pseudhymenochirus (1988) (51)
Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin (2015) (50)
Aposematism increases acoustic diversification and speciation in poison frogs (2014) (49)
Phylogeny and biogeography of paradoxical frogs (Anura, Hylidae, Pseudae) inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA. (2007) (48)
Kinematics of prey capture in the tailed frog Ascaphus truei (Anura : Ascaphidae) (1991) (42)
Convergent Substitutions in a Sodium Channel Suggest Multiple Origins of Toxin Resistance in Poison Frogs. (2016) (42)
Xenopus in Space and Time: Fossils, Node Calibrations, Tip-Dating, and Paleobiogeography (2015) (39)
Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae) (2015) (38)
Genetic divergence within frog species is greater in topographically more complex regions (2013) (37)
Phylogenetic significance of the amphicoelous frogs, Ascaphidae and Leiopelmatidae (1993) (36)
Amphibian community structure along elevation gradients in eastern Nepal Himalaya (2019) (35)
Comparison of Morphology and Calls of Two Cryptic Species of Physalaemus (Anura: Leiuperidae) (2008) (33)
The cranial osteology and hyolaryngeal apparatus of Rhinophrynus dorsalis (Anura: Rhinophrynidae) with comparisons to recent pipid frogs (1982) (32)
Isolation by instability: Historical climate change shapes population structure and genomic divergence of treefrogs in the Neotropical Cerrado savanna (2019) (32)
Recent host-shifts in ranaviruses: signatures of positive selection in the viral genome. (2013) (31)
A New Species of Atelopus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Andes of Northern Perú@@@A New Species of Atelopus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Andes of Northern Peru (1985) (30)
A new genus of bufonid ( Anura) from South America, and phylogenetic relationships of the neotropical genera. (1986) (29)
The birth of aposematism: High phenotypic divergence and low genetic diversity in a young clade of poison frogs. (2017) (29)
A NEW, CRYPTIC SPECIES OF PHYSALAEMUS (ANURA: LEPTODACTYLIDAE) FROM WESTERN ECUADOR WITH COMMENTS ON THE CALL STRUCTURE OF THE P. PUSTULOSUS SPECIES GROUP (2005) (29)
Leaf-frogs of the Phyllomedusa perinesos Group (Anura: Hylidae) (1982) (23)
Congruence Between Acoustic Traits and Genealogical History Reveals a New Species of Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae) in the High Andes of Colombia (2012) (23)
A new North American chorus frog species (Amphibia: Hylidae: Pseudacris) from the south-central United States (2008) (22)
Recent evolutionary history of Lost World endemics: population genetics, species delimitation, and phylogeography of sky-island treefrogs. (2015) (22)
Mitochondrial genes reveal cryptic diversity in plant-breeding frogs from Madagascar (Anura, Mantellidae, Guibemantis). (2007) (21)
Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata). (2015) (19)
Geographic determinants of gene flow in two sister species of tropical Andean frogs. (2014) (18)
TWO NEW SPECIES OF PHYSALAEMUS (ANURA: LEPTODACTYLIDAE) FROM WESTERN ECUADOR (2004) (17)
2 New Species Of Centrolenella From Bolivia Anura Centrolenidae (1980) (16)
Ontogeny of Sexual Dimorphism in the Larynx of the Túngara Frog, Physalaemus pustulosus (2014) (15)
Molecular patterns of differentiation in canyon treefrogs (Hyla arenicolor): evidence for introgressive hybridization with the Arizona treefrog (H. wrightorum) and correlations with advertisement call differences (2010) (14)
A new, large species of Chiasmocleis Méhelÿ 1904 (Anura: Microhylidae) from the Iquitos region, Amazonian Peru (2009) (11)
A new species of terrestrial Phyllomedusa (Anura: Hylidae) from southern Peru (1988) (11)
A New Atelopus from Ecuador and Colombia (1981) (11)
Hierarchies of evolutionary radiation in the world’s most species rich vertebrate group, the Neotropical Pristimantis leaf litter frogs (2018) (10)
An Integrative Phylogeny of Amphibia (2007) (10)
UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF AREAS OF ENDEMISM IN PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES: A REPLY TO BRIDLE ET AL. (2004) (9)
The Probabilistic Basis of Jaccard ' s Index of Similarity (2009) (9)
Synonymy and Distribution of Centrolenella orientalis with Notes on its Life History (Anura: Centrolenidae) (1986) (8)
A New Species of Osornophryne (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Andes of Ecuador (1986) (8)
Phylogeny and the Classification of Fossil and Recent Organisms (1991) (7)
An insight into molecular taxonomy of bufonids, microhylids, and dicroglossid frogs: First genetic records from Pakistan (2021) (6)
The systematic status of Syrrhophus juninensis Shreve (Anura: Leptodactylidae) (1985) (6)
Changes in localization and expression levels of Shroom2 and spectrin contribute to variation in amphibian egg pigmentation patterns (2009) (6)
Biota: The Biodiversity Database Manager. (1997) (5)
Paleotemperatures and recurrent habitat shifts drive diversification of treefrogs across distinct biodiversity hotspots in sub‐Amazonian South America (2020) (4)
Synonymy And Distribution Of Phyllomedusa boliviana Anura Hylidae (1983) (4)
Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians" (2008) (4)
Two New Species of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Phrynopus: With Comments on the Phylogeny of the Genus (2018) (3)
State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources (2022) (3)
Amphibian Biology. Vol. 1. The Integument@@@Amphibian Biology. Vol. 2. Social Behavior (1996) (2)
TEACHING HERPETOLOGY (2008) (2)
Ancient greek and ophidian orthography (1990) (2)
State of Amphibia 2020: Five years of amphibian research, diversity and resources (2021) (2)
Changes in localization and expression levels of Shroom2 and spectrins contribute to variation in amphibian egg pigmentation patterns (2009) (2)
Phylogeny and Evolution of Frogs (2013) (1)
UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF AREAS OF ENDEMISM IN PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES: A REPLY TO BRIDLE ET AL (2004) (1)
Biota: The Biodiversity Database Manager.—Robert K. Colwell. 1996. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, xvi + 574 pp. + software. $125.00. ISBN 0-87893-128-7. (1997) (1)
WITHDRAWN: Molecular phylogeny of the Papuan microhylid frogs (Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae and Genyophryninae) inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. (2008) (1)
Convergent Substitutions in a Sodium Channel Suggest Multiple Origins of Toxin Resistance in Poison Frogs. (2019) (1)
Calculation of indices of genetic distance, genetic similarity, and average homozygosity: correction of Green's computer program (1983) (1)
Homology. The Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology.@@@Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution. (1997) (1)
Two new species of Eleutherodactylus from western and central Mexico (Eleutherodactylus jamesdixoni sp. nov., Eleutherodactylus humboldti sp. nov.) (2023) (1)
How Phylogenetics Can Elucidate the Chemical Ecology of Poison Frogs and Their Arthropod Prey (2021) (1)
Response:significance of frog in amber. (1988) (1)
Significance of frog in Amber [3] (1988) (1)
Correction: Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages (2010) (1)
The Phyllomedusa perinesos group (Anura: Hylidae) is derived from a Miocene Amazonian Lineage. (2013) (0)
Genomic Assessment of Taxonomic Status of Central Texas Eurycea Salamanders (2015) (0)
A potential cost of evolving epibatidine resistance in poison frogs (2023) (0)
Rana Supplementary Figures (2016) (0)
Systematic Biology Volume 65, Number 5 September 2016 - Front Cover. (2016) (0)
Historical Perspectives (2022) (0)
OF SNAKE FROM THE CHAPARE REGION OF BOLIVIA, WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES (1992) (0)
AmphibiaWeb tracks the paradox: New species discovery in an era of declines (2013) (0)
Referees for Volume 39 (2004) (0)
2b or not 2b? 2bRAD is an effective alternative to ddRAD for phylogenomics (2023) (0)
Rana Supplementary Tables (2016) (0)
Marsupial frogs: Gastrotheca & allied genera; with osteology by Linda Trueb (2015) (0)
Rana Yuan Nexus file (2016) (0)
SALAMANDERS, GENUS NOTOTRITON, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES (1993) (0)
speciation in poison frogs Aposematism increases acoustic diversification and Supplementary data tml (2014) (0)
The Society of Systematic Biologists' Awards in Systematics (1999) (0)

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